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Church History 7.32.18

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: At the paschal full moon the sun is in the spring equinox and the moon opposite it.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:344

τῶν γὰρ ἰσημερινῶν τμημάτων ὄντων δύο, “τοῦ μὲν ἐαρινοῦ, τοῦ δὲ μετοπωρινοῦ, καὶ διαμετρούντων ἄλληλα, δοθείσης τε τῆς τῶν διαβα- “τηρίων ἡμέρας τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ τοῦ μηνὸς μεθʼ ἐσπέραν, ἐστήξεται μὲν ἡ σελήνη τὴν ἐναντίαν καὶ διάμετρον τῷ ἡλίῳ στάσιν, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔξεστιν ἐν ταῖς πανσελήνοις ὁρᾶν, ἔσονται δὲ ὁ μὲν κατὰ τὸ ἐαρινὸν ἰσημερινὸν, ὁ ἥλιος, τμῆμα, ἡ δὲ ἐξ ἀνάγκης κατὰ τὸ φθινοπωρινὸν ἰσημερινὸν, ἡ σελήνη.

English · Claude translation

For since there are two equinoctial segments, the spring and the autumn, diametrically opposite each other, and the day of the Passover is fixed on the fourteenth of the month after evening, the moon will stand in the position opposite and diametrically across from the sun, as one can see at full moons; and the sun will be in the spring equinoctial segment, and the moon necessarily in the autumn equinoctial one.

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Source
Dindorf 4:344 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Anatolius of Laodicea, Anatolius, Pasch. (Anatolius of Laodicea, On the Pascha) · quotation, high confidence

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  • Quotation from Anatolius of Laodicea.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/18/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/18/).

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